What is the best way to convert a schema script from SQL Server to Oracle?
I have a SQL Server database (used mostly for demo purposes) managed in the form of a SQL script that Id like to convert to Oracle. To be precise, Id like the equivalent Oracle creation SQL script that...
View ArticleSSMS has a 'View Dependencies' feature - what do you use this for?
View Dependencies is available off the right click context menu in SQL Server Management Studio's Object Explorer. Have you used this feature before? If so, what were you doing?
View ArticleWhat is the Change Management Pack?
Is this simply a tool that periodically monitors your schema for changes, or does one get more for the license fee of $3000/per processor?
View ArticleHow do I find all invalid objects in my database?
Is there an easy query I can run to do this, or some way of finding this out in SQL Developer?
View ArticleCoalescing a tablespace
Why would I want to coalesce a tablespace and how is this done?
View ArticleHow do I rename a schema?
It's not an option in SQL Developer (that I can find). How is this done?
View ArticleWhen should cold backups be taken?
Under which circumstances should I consider taking cold backups rather than hot backups?
View ArticleWhats the best database modelling tool out there?
I'm not immensely comfortable managing my database as a set of SQL scripts so in an ideal world I'd like for the code to be hidden from me when I make schema alterations. Something that lets me reverse...
View ArticleWhat are the differences between CHAR and NCHAR?
When would CHAR be worth using over NCHAR? Are there pros and cons with each?
View ArticleIs there an Oracle equivalent to Microsoft's Connect site?
Microsoft encourages users to submit feature suggestions to http://connect.microsoft.com/. It even lets you vote up suggestions made by others. Is there something equivalent for Oracle?
View ArticleRe-ordering columns - is this possible?
Is it possible to re-order columns in my table? Newly added columns are put on the 'end', and isn't necessarily how I'd like it to be presented to me when I do a 'select *'.
View ArticleWhat is the easiest way to direct SQL to multiple Oracle databases?
Say, if I want to update many databases at once, or if I want to query many database targets at once?
View ArticleDoes a column rename change the column name in referencing objects?
If I rename a column using "alter table sales rename column", will it be renamed in the objects that reference it (such as stored procedures)? Or do I have to find these and change them manually?
View ArticleValuable database checks sought for SQL Test
I'm part of a team at Red Gate that has worked in collaboration with the open source [tSQLt][1] unit testing framework developers to release a preview build of what we're calling [SQL Test][2], a SQL...
View ArticleDependencies of a query?
A customer asked me whether there was any way of listing all objects touched by a given query, ideally in a (dependency) diagram.
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